Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's February 4th, 2025, as I write this. We are ten days away from Valentine's day, and about a month away from Devnexus. Lots to look forward to, in both the short term and the long term!

Let's dive right into this week's roundup!

• Thanks very much to the San Francisco JUG for letting Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb and I take a little stroll down memory lane, and revisit at the first 10 whole years of Spring Boot. This was a ton of fun!
• our friend, Vaadin's Marcus Hellberg, has a really crazy example of a Spring Boot and Vaadin application that uses Spring AI MCP to update itself!
• Bellsoft's Catherine Edelveis has a nice video on Dockerizing your Spring Boot applications
• do you ever want an exploding code minigame from within your IntelliJ IDEA? there's a plugin for that!
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Hi, Spring and HTML fans! Today I talk to hypermedia enjoyer Carson Gross, creator of the ever popular HTMX library which eschews a ton of the complexity associated with building client side applications.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roarin' and exciting installment of This Week in Spring, wherein we look at the amazing week that was in the Spring community. And what a week it's been! In addition to tons of cool tooling and AI related stuff, this week saw the release of the first steps towards Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 3.5. Spring Framework 7.0, of course, is also the foundation upon which Spring Boot 4.0 will be based. So, that's exciting! Let's dive right in!

• Exciting news from Michael Minella: we're now publishing milestones to Maven Central.
• Spring Data 2025.1.M1 is out!. This is the first milestone in the 2025.1.0 line and has tons of nice new changes. It raises the baseline to Jakarta EE 11 (which includes Hibernate ORM 7 and Hibernate Validator 9) and Kotlin 2.x. This release also finally does away with long-deprecated features like ListenableFuture. Spring Data JPA has seen major changes! Derived queries now use JPQL (not the Criteria API, as before), resulting in much faster performance thanks to Hibernate Query Structure Caching.
• One of my favorite projects, Spring Modulith, has several new releases…

Hi, Spring fans! in this installment I talk to Java developer advocate Billy Korando about the latest and greatest in the amazing Java ecosystem! #java #JavaOne #Oracle

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! It's time to dive into this week's wondrous roundup!

• Good news, everybody! Spring Cloud AWS 3.3.0 is available!
• A neat video on stored procedures in Spring
• A very interesting article on the flow diagrams for Spring Security—a must-bookmark!
• The Spring Academy has a new tutorial on Spring Cloud Stream.
• Christian Tsolov (our very own Spring AI wunderkind!) has an amazing blog detailing how to write agentic code with Spring AI.
• Spring Data 2024.1.2 and 2024.0.8 released.
• Spring gRPC 0.3.0 released.
• In last week's installment of a Bootiful Podcast, I talked to the Apache Causeway project's Dan Haywood.
• Spring Framework 6.2.2 is available.
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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Dan Haywood, contributor to the Apache Causeway project.

Hi, Spring fans, and greetings from the island of St. Barths! Salut depuis l'île de Saint-Barthélemy!

I'm on a bit of PTO and have been bouncing around from one beach to another with my family. I just landed on a winning combination for a beach: warm water, a restaurant/bar, and some for-pay seats with shade. There are precisely three things to do in such a cherished spot: use it as a launchpad for occasional dips in the sea, read, and sleep—usually in that order!

And you know what I've been reading? The wild and wacky antics of the Spring community, of course!

There's a ton of exciting news…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the good and the great Dr. Dave Syer about the (experimental!) new Spring gRPC project!

Hi, Spring fans, and happy new year! It's been another super seven days since we last spoke and, as always, there's a lot to cover so let's dive right into it!

• A long time in coming, but it's finally here! Hello DCO, Goodbye CLA: Simplifying Contributions to Spring
• the Spring AI hits just keep on coming! Spring AI MCP 0.4.0 (Milestone) Released
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to legendary technologist Dez Blanchfield
• Our very own Michelle Sebek has a nice blog on letting Tanzu, a cloud platform from Broadcom, the company where a good many of the Spring teanm work, do the heavy lifting
• Dhaval Shah has a nice blog looking at virtual threads in Java
• I am a big fan of workflow engines and of Cornelia Davis and of Spring Boot, …

Hi, Spring fans! Happy happy = new Year(2025)! It's a new year and a new opportunity! In this episode I talk to my friend and legendary technologist Dez Blanchfield!